Bashar Al-Assad
Recognizing Disaster: Please, Mr. President, Don’t Intervene in Syria
A Middle East Cheat Sheet For Monday's Foreign Policy Debate
Of the six segments in Monday night's presidential debate on foreign policy, two will be focused on the Middle East. Here are a dozen Middle East-related questions I hope CBS newsman Bob Schieffer considers posing – four to President Obama, four to Governor Romney and four for both candidates. To President Obama: READ MORE >>
Turkey's Prime Minister Wants War in Syria. Turks Don't.
How Sectarianism Blinds the Shia to the Horrors of Syria
How the Arab Spring Killed Hezbollah
Hassan Nasrallah has always been more sophisticated than the caricatured nightmare featured in the breathless propaganda of Hezbollah’s many enemies. Even at his most noxious he usually managed to present himself as a man of principle. That’s why it was almost sad to see Nasrallah this week pandering like an old-time Arab despot to public anger over the misbegotten Prophet Mohammed YouTube clip. READ MORE >>
Inside Syria’s Fracturing Rebellion
The latest Newsweek features an insider-y read by Joan Juliet Buck, the magazine writer who wrote the infamous 2011 Vogue puff piece on Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. I’m tempted to call it a cautionary tale for journalists—and that’s clearly how it is presented, with the headline “Mrs. Assad Duped Me.” READ MORE >>
